{"id":471494,"date":"2018-05-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1331cf43a6887a5849cdcf41bd21be14"},"modified":"2018-05-07T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T08:00:00","slug":"horizons-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=471494","title":{"rendered":"Horizons vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/05\/horizons_vision\/17497885-1-eng-GB\/Horizons_Vision_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\u2018Horizons\u2019 is the name of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst\u2019s second mission to the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mission name evokes exploring our Universe, looking far beyond our planet and broadening our knowledge. Alexander would also like to make people realise that there is always a chance to go beyond their personal horizons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander will be launched on 6 June with US astronaut&nbsp;Serena Au\u00f1\u00f3n-Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander will take over command of the International Space Station for the second half of his mission.&nbsp;Alexander Gerst is the 11th German citizen to fly into space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe astronaut is now in the last stages of training for his challenging spaceflight. The science programme is packed with European research: more than 50 experiments will deliver benefits to people back on Earth and prepare for future space exploration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/05\/horizons_vision\/17497885-1-eng-GB\/Horizons_Vision_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\n&lsquo;Horizons&rsquo; is the name of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst&rsquo;s second mission to the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mission name evokes exploring our Universe, looking far beyond our planet and broadening our knowledge. Alexander would also like to make people realise that there is always a chance to go beyond their personal horizons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander will be launched on 6 June with US astronaut&nbsp;Serena Au&ntilde;&oacute;n-Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander will take over command of the International Space Station for the second half of his mission.&nbsp;Alexander Gerst is the 11th German citizen to fly into space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe astronaut is now in the last stages of training for his challenging spaceflight. The science programme is packed with European research: more than 50 experiments will deliver benefits to people back on Earth and prepare for future space exploration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479352,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471494\/revisions\/479352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}